Except in manuscript C, where Reinmar is given the sobriquet der Alte (the Old)--apparently to distinguish him from younger authors of the same name--his only historically attested name is simply Reinmar (spelled variously). The name Reinmar von Hagenau is a creation of nineteenth-century scholarship based on a passage in the literary review in Gottfried von Straßburg's Tristan und Isolde (circa 1210; translated as The Story of Tristan and Iseult, 1889). There Gottfried, while discussing the lyric poets of his age metaphorically as nightingales, laments the passing of one who has been their "leitevrouwe" (leader) up to now as "diu von Hagenouwe" (the one from Hagenau). Since Hagenau is an Alsatian city north of Strasbourg, where the imperial Hohenstaufen family had important estates, Gottfried's praise of the nightingale of Hagenau has been seen as a eulogy to a fellow Alsatian. A few scholars view Reinmar as an Austrian...